India to have tele-medicine service with SAARC countries - Indian
External Affairs Minister
Tele-medicine services will become operational between India, Bhutan
and Sri Lanka by this year end, Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab
Mukherjee said.
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Pranab Mukherjee |
"To start the tele-medicine services by September this year, a
Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between India and Bhutan,"
he said adding that after this the service would become operational
between India and Sri Lanka too by the year-end.
"The Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research here
has been chosen as one of the super-speciality institutes for
implementation of telemedicine programme in SAARC countries", Mukherjee
said addressing the students and faculty during the 29th annual
Convocation of the Institute.
Pointing to the importance of quality health care among the poor, he
said "the 10th Plan allocation for health was Rs. 42,000 crore. The 11th
Plan envisages tripling the allocation".
Praising the faculty of the PGIMER, he said "since the faculty was
among the best in India I would urge the doctors to focus their energies
on answering the health needs of this country."
"We need a lot more grass-roots research on the epidemiology of our
diseases on infections, on nutrition and its interaction with disease
processes, on simplified treatment regimens, and so on," he said.
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